Comparing Book Search engines
Greg Notess
Looking at what is freely available online
Looking at it like a new HUGE database of searchable written material
Ref q.
Forgot to get full citation after returning book.
Go to amazon and pull up the page
Amazon’s search inside the book
A9
Google book search
Open content alliance
Individual publishers’ initiatives
Open web
Issues w/
Scanned books
OCR quality varies
Full content scans
Full text searching of books
New information source for searchers
Searching, not reading
Think about potential uses
Limited access, but full (?) search
A9 and Amazon
Both can search inside the covers
A9: check books box
Search inside vs. look inside
Currently published books
Including reprints
In amazon – default proxcimity search ? unknown
Amazon
Limit to books database
Look for search inside or look inside image
Now there are exerpts in results lists
And you can click on the see more for the amazon reader
Amazon viewer
Purchase, annotate etc.
Example : glacier panorama look at excerpt pg 16 – garbage
A9
Check books database
Larger retrieval set
“see more references to…”
leads back to amazon
“phrase searching works in both”
The Google books
“the aim of Google Books search is to help you discover books not read them cover to cover”
scan books from publishers
or electronic copies from publishers
agreements with publishers
no agreement=not included
unless part of Google books initiative (library)
Old, out of copyright
Example:
Books and culture by mabie
1923 to present
considered under copyright
but look at current population reports
not good bibliographic record
so gov docs that are available free are not through google books
Limited access with google account
Sample pages
Snippet view
Full view
No preview view
Links to book stores/shopping sites sometimes
Links to open WorldCat
Doesn’t work well if the metadata is poor
The Umich option
Google scans in mirlyn
Mirlyn.lib
Open Cintent Alliance (OCA)
Announced, live later this year?
Internet archive
Universities
http://openlibrary.org
nice interface and flipping pages
Google& Amazon
Both can have old books
Amazon reprints
To find specific books
Check a9, google books, oca
Search open web
Check publisher sites, Ebrary
Search phrase from the content of the book on the open web, you might have some luck.
Or
Intitle:”index of”
National academies press
Offers pdfs of books
e.g. diataries
Looking at what is freely available online
Looking at it like a new HUGE database of searchable written material
Ref q.
Forgot to get full citation after returning book.
Go to amazon and pull up the page
Amazon’s search inside the book
A9
Google book search
Open content alliance
Individual publishers’ initiatives
Open web
Issues w/
Scanned books
OCR quality varies
Full content scans
Full text searching of books
New information source for searchers
Searching, not reading
Think about potential uses
Limited access, but full (?) search
A9 and Amazon
Both can search inside the covers
A9: check books box
Search inside vs. look inside
Currently published books
Including reprints
In amazon – default proxcimity search ? unknown
Amazon
Limit to books database
Look for search inside or look inside image
Now there are exerpts in results lists
And you can click on the see more for the amazon reader
Amazon viewer
Purchase, annotate etc.
Example : glacier panorama look at excerpt pg 16 – garbage
A9
Check books database
Larger retrieval set
“see more references to…”
leads back to amazon
“phrase searching works in both”
The Google books
“the aim of Google Books search is to help you discover books not read them cover to cover”
scan books from publishers
or electronic copies from publishers
agreements with publishers
no agreement=not included
unless part of Google books initiative (library)
Old, out of copyright
Example:
Books and culture by mabie
1923 to present
considered under copyright
but look at current population reports
not good bibliographic record
so gov docs that are available free are not through google books
Limited access with google account
Sample pages
Snippet view
Full view
No preview view
Links to book stores/shopping sites sometimes
Links to open WorldCat
Doesn’t work well if the metadata is poor
The Umich option
Google scans in mirlyn
Mirlyn.lib
Open Cintent Alliance (OCA)
Announced, live later this year?
Internet archive
Universities
http://openlibrary.org
nice interface and flipping pages
Google& Amazon
Both can have old books
Amazon reprints
To find specific books
Check a9, google books, oca
Search open web
Check publisher sites, Ebrary
Search phrase from the content of the book on the open web, you might have some luck.
Or
Intitle:”index of”
National academies press
Offers pdfs of books
e.g. diataries
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